Confessions of a Newbie Rider

[Grahamm]

[quote author=elbrownos link=topic=9670.msg98258#msg98258 date=1378057526]
I change from 6th to 1st without releasing the clutch in between.

God don't do that! It's incredibly bad for a sequential gearbox to have that done to it, you need to make sure every gear you have has been selected and meshed properly on the way up and down the box to avoid anything being stripped!
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I don't see why block shifting is bad.

As you approach a hazard you use the brakes to slow yourself (based on the Limit Point or proximity), then pull in the clutch, drop down however many gears you need as appropriate to the situation and speed, add a touch of throttle to make sure the "input" gear speed and "output" gear speeds are about the same, then feed in the clutch and it's all nice and smooth.

Sure, if you manage to totally mis-match the gear speeds, you may end up with the rear wheel locking up or a nasty noise (although on my FZ6, if I try to go from second to first at too high a speed it will just refuse to engage), but that just means you need to practice getting the speeds equal a bit more.

Block shifting is also recommended by the IAM as part of "sympathy for the machine" ie it saves repeated use of the clutch when it's not required.